A segmentation method and classification of diagnosis for thyroid nodules

Heterogeneous features of thyroid nodules in ultrasound images is very difficult task when radiologists and physicians manually draw a complete shape of nodule, size and shape, image or distinguish what type of nodule is exist. Segmentation and classification is important methods for medical image processing. Ultrasound imaging is the best way to prediction of which type of thyroid is there. In this paper, uses the groups Benign (non-cancerous) and Malignant (cancerous) Thyroid Nodules images were used. The texture feature method like GLCM are very useful for classifying texture of images and these features are used to train the classifiers such as SVM, KNN and Bayesian. The experimental result shows the performance of the classifiers and shows the best predictive value and positively identify the percentage of the non-cancerous or cancerous people and shows the best performance accuracy using the SVM classifier as compare to the KNN and Bayesian classifier.

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